Mamelodi Sundowns will return to league action this week and Coach Rulani Mokwena has given his assessment on the preparations ahead of the encounter.
The Brazilians, who secured their spot in the group stages of the CAF Champions League this week, have turned all their attention to their upcoming DStv Premiership encounter against Baroka FC on Saturday, January 09.
"The preparations for the Baroka match on Saturday have been good. I think we are in a good space, of course, this is our third match in eight days, we have to be a bit more focused on the physical aspects of our preparation to make sure that we still get enough freshness and energy to be able to play with the intensity that we want to play," Mokwena told the media.
"We've tried to work on that in terms of our recovery processes and regeneration processes and we are in a good space, we almost getting a clean bill of health which is also very good, we are moving into space where we are welcoming a lot of players back to training, but of course that is also another process where we have to be patient and not rush individual players into competitive game forms.
"We have to integrate them, particularly those who've come from muscular and soft tissue injuries and those are the ones that we have to be very careful about and slowly progress them into competitive football.
"We come from a very good result and emotionally we are also improving as a team and we are getting into the right state of mind and now it is all hands on deck and we look forward to travelling to Polokwane to play against a very good Baroka side.
Sundowns sit top of the Premiership standings, though only by goal difference, as Swallows FC follow behind with the same amount of points (21).
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